Rich Eisen Quotes

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

I watch ESPN all day long.

I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.

I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.

If you're a sports fan and you're home and you're washing dishes, usually your TV is on ESPN and you're just getting the highlights and keeping up-to-date with all of the sports going around, all of the news.

Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.

I wanted to work for CBS because I loved the way CBS broadcast the Masters and I loved the way CBS presented the NFL. I loved the voices I heard.

I work for the BBC now. I do it because I genuinely love football.

By the time I left ESPN in 2003, 'SportsCenter' had become a far different show than the one I initially joined in 1996.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.

A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.